Quotes About Success

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.

It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.

Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write.

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

Everyone who has ever aspired to be a stock car driver wants to win the Daytona 500. If someone says that it's better to win somewhere else, then that tells me one thing for sure - they've never won at Daytona.

I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying houses, and I had to really take stock and say: am I going to go for this comedy thing, or what?

You understand in this league that if you don't win, everybody's stock tumbles.

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

Someday you give a hit movie and things are good, but when your next movie fails, your stocks fall.

Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.

Of course it's a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.

The four and a half years I had at Stoke is something I will always look back on with pride because it was a huge achievement. To be able to last in a high profile job as long as I did showed that, for the most part, I did a decent job there.

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.